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Image Not Available for Roots (print is a cropped image)
Roots (print is a cropped image)
Image Not Available for Roots (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.26958
Display Title Roots (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • /Gwikwe
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / Central Kalahari Game Reserve / /Ai Ha !O Pan
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Group of five people in the grass looking for tsama melons (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30212 Digging for roots: Group of five people in the grass looking for tsama melons (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: /Twikwe and DaSi!Na gathering tsama melons in a field, /Twikwe putting a melon in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30211 Digging for roots: /Twikwe and DaSi!Na gathering tsama melons in a field, /Twikwe putting a melon in her kaross (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for !Gai and //Kwaiǂkabe stripping bark from root for making a quiver, N!whakwe sitting beside !Gai (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26987 !Gai and //Kwaiǂkabe stripping bark from root for making a quiver, N!whakwe sitting beside !Gai (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: Woman holding the stem of an edible root, picking it out from the grass (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30208 Digging for roots: Woman holding the stem of an edible root, picking it out from the grass (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30204 Digging for roots: !U pulling up a root, with //Kushay sitting next to her and holding Norna (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Person's hand holding a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27177 Person's hand holding a root (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for End of a quiver made with bark of a root with a leather end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27169 End of a quiver made with bark of a root with a leather end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for /Twikwe kneeling taking magic root from her bag (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26946 /Twikwe kneeling taking magic root from her bag (print is a cropped image)
/Gau /U Pan
Image Not Available for Root, partly dug out (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26953 Root, partly dug out (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for Root, partly dug out (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26952 Root, partly dug out (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for /Twikwe digging root with a digging stick, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26957 /Twikwe digging root with a digging stick, close-up (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Image Not Available for /Twikwe sitting digging a root (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.26956 /Twikwe sitting digging a root (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan